John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
啊，我可太喜欢了😭 不管是贯穿全片的挖墓主线还是女主和小女友之间的“露水情缘”真的好喜欢，可以看到西班牙、法国人对家庭与亲人的在意同时又可以看到她/他们对待爱情对待关系对待性对待孩子的开放、平等、自由的态度😭😭你永远可以相信女生与女生之间的情谊，不像电影里的异性恋夫妻只要离婚必定要争夺孩子的抚养权，但是可笑的是父亲这个角色本身其实根本就没资格去跟母亲争夺孩子，因为男人除了贡献了那一丝精子外就没有任何贡献，而本片中就算最后最亲近的孩子要被拿走了，我也不会大吵大闹我会帮你系好宝宝背带帮你提行李到电梯外😭😭😭p.s.看到Janis这样的milf怎么可能不心动😭😭😭😭😭
虽然故事有些平淡，但阿莫多瓦的镜头依然充满人文关怀，就像在温柔安抚着母亲们的肩。无论国家的新生还是个体的分娩，都需要拒绝谎言。
可以窥到阿莫多瓦现在的创作状态。被掩埋的历史和抱错的孩子，两个母亲之间的感情耐人寻味。
暧昧的道德界限，最后梦幻消解的沉痛。依然温柔也依然坚定的女性视角，依然狗血也依然铺陈的理所当然的故事，阿莫多瓦但是柔和百倍的阿莫多瓦
近些年少有的恐怖精品，经得起推敲，非常朴素纯粹，虽然一丁点恐怖都没有。另外，几段“黑暗影像”相当出彩，这是奇博导演最拿手的，类似《险恶》的杀人录像。
⑨不同以往的“母亲”身份叙事，重新书写经典的“换子”桥段，即使没能打破生理性原则、传统家庭方式的限制。电子屏幕带来的现代化也未能破坏阿莫多瓦的美学氛围。涉及到了女权主义运动、跨性别议题，并浓墨重彩地表达了关于西班牙历史的反思，在戏剧意义外，还是有力的政治发声之作。
但是没有解释为什么没有立刻杀了男孩以及反派为什么一直戴着面具 害怕别人看到他的脸
《平行母亲》，乍一看集狗血之大成。出轨男主老婆癌症，女主独自生小孩，和女二孩子错抱，其中一个宝宝还死了。女二的孩子是被同校男生强迫怀上的，父母为了女孩的声誉选择默不作声。女主和女二喜欢上了彼此并同居……可是，竟然也不觉得突兀。阿莫多瓦的电影最可贵处大约就是不评判，不说教并且永怀善意。我们总要撕碎谎言，直面痛苦，迎接新生。影片的色彩真美，而贯穿其中的长枪党屠杀乱葬岗挖掘事件，大约才是导演的真正意图——这部电影是对年轻人叙述的一种方式，他们必须看一看过去。
服化道摄都挺棒，就是故事太一般，有点生拉硬扯。一是将两母亲拽一起，后来还玩女同；二是换错孩子，让人想起《换子疑云》，其中一个孩子生得太搞了；三是把这些跟挖墓弄到一起，似乎是想在生与死之间进行某种思考。
1.平行也会错位，母亲未必天然。2.历史的父亲揭露（uncover）湮没的遗存而确认，现实的母亲忍受（bear）失去的痛苦而释怀。3.5
历史延伸当下，现在即是将来。血脉、祖谱、家庭；基因、身世；灾难、疾病、生死；历史、影像、戏剧，甚至还有更多的元素同时存在于不同的时空轨道，平行而不相交。人在4个月大的时候感知到的亲情，到了90岁还记得。母系社会，男性之躯，仍然是阿莫多瓦的女性视角。挖掘乱葬坑实在太生猛了。
一个调包孩子的俗套故事的背后是西班牙残酷的历史，阿莫多瓦用了种最耐人寻味的手法将母亲的主题和历史相互映射，但又不提供明显的钥匙。片中一个个“缺席的父亲”和不同的母亲形象都有很多值得解读的空间。
两个主题并置。和短片《人类的呼声》一个色系
月薪几百欧能穿得起miumiu，服设你在逗我吗。
表演和剪辑都很好，但整体上故事层面的两条线索各说各的很奇怪。70
不愧是阿莫多瓦，故事总是有意想不到的走向，还因此多了解了一些西班牙内战。
暗室的合唱：No other can divide with thee this work,No secondary hand can intervene…（汪荒146）
Penélope Cruz太好看了，穿啥都好看，不穿也好看。依旧是高审美，每一个画面里的颜色们形状们的搭配都让人惊叹：衣服的颜色、墙的颜色、车的颜色、土豆和西红柿的颜色……阿莫多瓦的电影就光看美女看设计就觉得不亏了。主旨上大概是想说，人总要面对真相（孩子到底谁的/老一辈是怎么死的），要把事情理清楚，这很艰难这需要过程需要折腾，但总要面对，理清楚了之后才能往前走。不过的确，关于孩子和关于内战记忆的两条线的交错不能说十分自然十分有说服力。在历史问题从未被真正打开面对、而近年来在Vox的崛起的背景下政治极化加深的西班牙，阿莫多瓦作为有鲜明政治立场的电影人借这么一部片来表个态站个队（还顺便点了Rajoy的名字直接骂），我觉得我是能理解的。
阿莫多瓦的色彩和美学依然水准很高，佩内洛普还是美丽动人和自信，只是人类学考古的佛朗哥前世和两个平行母亲之间故事割裂太严重
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